Roketz

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Developer(s) The FARM
Publisher(s) Exclusive PD
Platform(s) Amiga 1200, MS-DOS
Release1995: Amiga [1]
1996: MS-DOS
Genre(s) Multidirectional shooter
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Roketz is a multidirectional shooter released for the Amiga 1200 in 1995 and MS-DOS in 1996. It has gravity-based, thrust-and-turn gameplay similar to the arcade video game Gravitar , a game that also inspired the home game Thrust .

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